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Night time blast off of 4 stage NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket at 11:05 p.m. EDT on June 5,…
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Hubble mosaic of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, thought to be connected by a filament of dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
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Euclid, an exciting new mission to map the geometry, distribution and evolution of dark energy and dark matter has just…